Faith and the Muse

Wassail Wassail; All merit good cheer We wish thee dear faithful a wondrous New Year Our fine bowl is made of the white maple tree With the Wassailing bowl we honor thee So here by the fire good spirits renewed We wish thee dear faithful: thy dreams may c...

I am my only thief and jailor keep Bedeviled and priest beseech The pander come to me But mad love is religion enough For my heart And to those I gave life Confessions of a gift worth end I am the spirit's grin kissed With the taste of silent tears And the glu...

Here, thoughts cling airborne To a sea of voice so glorious; mesmerizing This is my body; this is my inner mind; What lies beneath my eyes Discarded years of elemental faith Beckoned to a watery embrace with love upon his face My appetite's unchanged Sink int...

The clash of worlds is at hand. I am the first. I am the last. The passage has occurred. I am the knowing. I am the lost. I am the honored. I am the scorned. Look to the Guardian of the cautious West The White Tiger preys the autumn winds Eyes pierce...

It's the impossibility of Womanhood that vexes me. The child bride symbol The ability to read eyes and minds - Curves more fluid than desert waves, The tiny bones of the wrist, The organic movement to paint the lips. But the heart A woman's heart Much older th...

O my deare brother I am damnifyed at Caer Siddi For myn housbonde hath this twelfmonth treated me with crueltie Albe to please thee I didst cheerfullie accept his proffred hand I was ne'er wary he was ruler of y Uffern land For whan his gastfull subjekts they...

In kairos hour I bequeath Confusion of my sole belief Consider: am I god in mortal shell Yet shine no brighter than myself Invaded by life's patriarch Who conquered me through hatred's art With fists of all unspoken sin Agrip'd my angered heart within And bloo...

Saevym atque ferum vipereumque malum Quod pinnis volitans super aethera cuncta fatigat teneat possideat Semper suis amoribus perfruatur 

Beneath the sediment of aeons In ancient repose My trust lay eroded by age The old glory faded And past times forgotten My reign given way to my rage Harmonious the centuries The land and I were one My Soil My water, My air Bringer of light And Master of nigh...

Tell your secrets to the ground the dampened leaves and broken twigs reveal your presence... Where she has lain three hundred years where no one hears... What bade you come what brings you to this place Where words and deeds gently end where lovers lost might...

Behold this pale offering whose essence feeds your every need Entwined, divine in the sleepless heart but what's to become of me Wake the Walls of Remembrance Sing tenderness my silent ones Your eyes of wonder Shake the walls with this Severance Cry bitternes...

Hear me my beloved; I beckon thee through waves of dream and in mine ears a voice whispers oceans of light and in thine eyes alone begins this journey of mine; is this love? Thou art Love; thou art Truth; thou art a vision resplendent and I am born with recogn...

And if I'd the spell to claim your existence Your clandestine thoughts; your soul's soft persistence I'd follow the mirror aglow with your image Your water-grave eyes and your lingering fragrance But unknown by you; lost in the shadows I Fade and Remain Love...

The season's over The season's done Too slow to notice The fire's gone So thin on the ground With a chemical heart And a cheap excuse I've played my part A torch to the error And a cold hard look in the eye I wonder why You still wander 'round in rain A torch...

Row us out to Desenzano, to your Sirmione row So they rowed, and there we landed O Venusta Sirmio There to me through all the groves of olive in the summer glow There beneath the Roman ruin where the purple flowers grow Came that Ave atque Vale of the poet's h...

I'd gone to ground Thought I'd sleep forever somehow So you flickered till you dimmed And foolishly I let you in I'd gone to ground While you laid waste to my realm Blew your friendly dust upon my face I hapless rendered me to grave Oh there are Truths behind...

Salute the essence Perfection's humor Conversed so often: mute Oh my dear I'm always near Oh my dear Heal We can't conceive A child's peace Belief our direction Salute the essence: The essence of two performers A pleasure ridden torture 

Low ye hills in ocean lie Hob y derri dando Hide not Meirion from my eye Hob y derri dando Still one view oh let me take Down derri down Ere my longing heart do break Down down hie derri down My darling Mary do not frown Down down hie derri down My darling Mar...

ancient earthwork, fort and barrow discreetly hide their secret abodes the most fearful hide deep inside and venture not there opon yuletide for invasion of their hollow hills that music hold, and oberon fill is surely recommended not for fear of death, in fe...

Ophelia Cordelia Desdemona And Kate My sweetness and Beatrice So precious your pain I sing for your lovers Your heavenly fathers to be Your possible futures Your obvious endings defeat me Alma Badoura Dorothea And Jade Belphoebe is just like me Such perfect di...

When I was fair and young, and favor graced me Of many was I sought their mistress for to be But I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore Go, go, seek some otherwhere Importune Me No more How many weeping eyes I made to pine with woe How many sighing...

Soft in essence purity, came to me in blissful dreams, And bade me follow sleepily to sights we few have never seen, I dropped down to join her view, I fit quite well her feline saunter, Rings and echos past we two, a sing-song call did beckon her, And with h...

In this heightened moment I am with you, my Love. In this Risen moment Here with you, my Love. Hold the hurt to heart, Put the heart beneath a stone And wait for the rain. Hold the hurt to heart, Put the heart beneath a stone Another stone to step along our wa...

Air-built madness: unfamiliar charm Hides in the softest eyes And ponderous smiles manifest denial But heavy heartless Conscious of our load Hurled by dreams into a separate world We dig the thoughtless earth With fingers lighter than the breath Of lifeless m...

Brave your heart Renounce your fears Locked away inside All these years Remain in light Renounce your fears For you have been Mesmerized Break this spell of silence 

There was a friend upon whom once Nature played her joke She gave him width instead of height And hands too large for chivalry A strength of body quite too great To satisfy a soul that craved aesthetic light She must have smiled when in that frame Was...

Our love, is an old love it's older than all of our years I had seen in strangers eyes familiar tears We're old souls, in a new life they gave us a new life to live and learn some time to touch old friends and still return Our paths have corssed and parted,...

So you've returned to lengthen my shadowTo once again shatter my windows What a child will feel When the home is hell Hands loom and fall Waiting for the pen to move With arms too wide to hold just one Too small to heal the world Go on Were it but words that...

Suffer the ragged dances the supreme debt to Nature The horror that a hero may inspire when a hero falls and all the secrets of a life Flood in and slink away the terror breath in breast gone too sane Closing the gap between heaven and earth Failure succeeds...

Mother and Father, Sister and friend It's not that I embrace the end It's simply that I feel too deeply Towards what I see around me But this is not escape This is my way Oh Father, Mother I find The people here are so unkind And strangers trample blindly They...

Should I let me guide me All that lies before me And If I lay beauty before me and above me And If I lay beauty behind me and below me Is that wrong of me To escape these surroundings Agony is the moment created Redefined and riveted And If I lay beauty behi...

The walls of my myth are closing in Past a twenty year rebellion And the song comes back again I am a man and my blood is still running strong We didn't realize we'd all live so long When I revive my once youth nation A Relic Song for the new generation Anot...

Woke up tired I woke up down on my knees tonight My eyes were wet and I felt so dead inside A grieving fragment of myself distorted memory Choking tears as I slam the door again I swallow rage I taste its wisdom Nomadic fears force sanctuary I drink in truth...

Burning crosses On a nigger's lawn Burning dollars What's a house without a home? Dance in your white sheet glory Dance in your passion Talk about sugar on the six fingered beast Conversation about the holes in your hands Walk through the garden Of men's desir...

It doesn't hurt me. Do you want to feel how it feels? Do you want to know that it doesn't hurt me? Do you want to hear about the deal that I'm making? You, it's you and me. And if I only could, I'd make a deal with God, And I'd get him to swap our places...

We Are The Inheritors: The Evidence of Heaven Descendants of a Legacy gone but not Forgotten We Are The Inheritors of the Grand Persuasion Descendants of its Masquerade Numb but not Defeated Welcome to the silent war, to the world we never hoped to gain The g...

It's time to let go Time to spend some time alone Farbeit to explain what has been done and what is illusion We have outlived ourselves By many a ruined year The future ripped from a tattered page Like the violence in dream-dead eyes The reflection of a thou...

How carelessly the bound daylight caresses oblivious to wandering eyes Extinguished free me reckless with the night elusive scenes enkindled burst to fire where splendor casts umbrageous twin and love sparks radiance to guide the heart from within all in sear...

Time to show some sharper teeth Time to grow a thicker skin Time to drop the seventh veil and let some madness wander in. This is not a darker age Just the turning of the wheel I am here to reassure we never really had control. This world was never kind So s...

I'm having a weak moment A moment that may not end Lonely in my own skin Everything is changing Everything seems changed As if quietly replaced By something souless Burn it down What happened to the spirit With all its endless strength Did they swallow her u...

Eripite nos ex miseriis crudelis Terras, eripite nos ex faucibus eorum, quorum crudelitas nostro sanguine non potest expleri. 

Come the tides We hear tell of the mortal season Fed rife with rhyme and reason Tainted with despair Kill-darkened skies Painted black, so black with misery Raining down with impunity Oh, the cross we've brought to bear In the treason fields Where man again...

There was a gentle angler who was angling in the sea With heart as cold as only heart untaught of love can be When suddenly the water rushed and swelled and up there sprang A humid maid of beauty's mold and thus to him she sang "Why dost thou strive so artful...

Come to life my deviltry Possess this poor company Our secret be benefit Their unhappy lack of it Awaken my trusting friend My undisturbed reflection So fluid your beauty All gears and teeth Come Alive Come to life my second skin To protect the madness locke...

Another night down on the Catherine wheel Drawn into a corner A symphony of resounding shrieks in my head I court a sure, sudden death But give no quarter A paper soul tears the heart from the mind Searing is the morning, a tenement of lights Lost inside the...

The wind doth howl today m'love and a winter's worth of rain I never had but one true love in cold grave she was lain Oh I adored my sweetest love as any young man may So I'll sit and weep upin her grave for twelve-month and a day One true love is eternity fo...

Welcome my dear please take my hand It's wonderful here it's really quite grand The moment still, await the hour The Masquerade for Time's dead flowers Dancing and reeling We move beneath shadows We've hung from the ceiling All memory receding Take leave of r...

A thousand dreamers crept as one Journey'd by the colder sun Knocked at the chamber's gate Yet this sleeper does not wake In the oracle overhung With careless whispers, ivystung Their tiny fingers cling to warmth A home for the love weary heart Onward sacrar...

I walk with phantoms and leaves are burning at my feet. I walk with phantoms. Sometimes they rage Sometimes they fade. Some must watch while some are Singing Singing the hum of the walking dead. Singing I walk with phantoms and leaves are ice at my feet. I wal...

When to her lute Corinna sings Her voice revives the leaden strings And doth on highest note appeare As any challeng'd echo cleare But when she doth of mourning speake Ev'n with her sighs the strings do breake And as her lute doth live or die Led by her passio...

You've come this far It's just a little further from where you are Another hour, another mile, one more year It might be easier to let yourself disappear. Always on the outside And all eyes turn away All eyes turn away. It's fragile work to keep your dream But...

Heigh ho ! Who is there ? No one but me, my dear. Please come say, How do ? The things I'll give to you. By stroke as gentle as a feather I'll catch a rainbow from the sky And tie the ends together. Heigh ho ! I am here Am I not young and fair ? Please come sa...